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Walker Offers Advice to DeSantis · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to The West Carol Morning Show. Thursday morning, twentieth
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day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for kicking off your morning with me.
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We have had something happen that we've been told doesn't happen, but it
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did. Doesn't happen a lot, very rare occurrence, but the point is
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it happened, and I'm not celebrating that it happened. This is a horrible
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thing that's happened, and it's something that we've been told, only in America
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does this kind of thing happen. Only does this happen in France, right,
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because France has had some terror situations and some attacks with people doing horrible
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things, So only in Europe are only in America can something like this happen.
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Doesn't happen in places where they're more enlightened and they have taken the proper
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necessary precautions to make sure that this can't happen. Talking about a mass shooting
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that has happened in New Zealand, again it is a rare occurrence, but
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it's a very low population in New Zealand. There's not a lot of people
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there. To begin with. It is an island country. It's much easier
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to regulate what guns come in and out of the country. It's also a
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country that doesn't have a rich history of militia groups warding off an oppressive government
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in England in order to celebrate a new country, a new nation that is
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prepared moving forward for an oppressive government to come in place. That's another aspect
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of this that people that don't seem to understand how much it is ingrained in
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our founding and in our DNA. I don't celebrate in any way any sort
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of gun violence. I don't. I think it's all terrible. I think
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we put a higher, much higher precedence when it comes to news, when
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they can say it's a mass shooting, it's a mass shooting. If it's
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you know, two guys in Chicago, one shoots the other one often black
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on black crime, it's kind of swept aside. That's not the concern.
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It's the mass shooting. When it's two people or more, then they want
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to get into the mass shooting aspect of it. Or when it's a bullet
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when they find a bullet shell somewhere on the campus, of a school where
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someone shots someone from the street and they say, oh, the bullet may
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have passed over the parking lot of the school when no one was there on
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Sunday. It's a school shooting. Those sorts of terminologies that have at least
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been accused of happening. I don't know. I don't know the behind the
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scenes on all of this. What I do know is that, yes,
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Auckland, a shooting has taken place, six injured, two dead, and
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the gunman was also killed. So here's here's what we have. Here's a
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twenty four year old who was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet entered a building and
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it says three seriously shot, six people confirmed injured. So yes, two
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people dead and the shooter is also dead, so I guess that makes three
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and they say multiple injuries reported. Okay, so we've been told they have
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all of this in check, that this isn't something now nowhere in this particular
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story that I'm reading, and I'm pulling this from one of their New Zealand
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newspapers, I don't see the words mass shooting. I don't see that anywhere.
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I don't see any sort of alarmist dialogue It's just a shooting took place
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and the person who did the shooting was neutralized and killed. That's basically it.
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Now, I know people there are concerned. People there would be,
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they'd have to be horrified. This isn't a common occurrence for them. But
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again, they're an island country, easy to regulate what comes in and out,
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So when someone there does have a weapon like this and shoots people,
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they certainly have reason to have concern and alarm because you know, they were
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under this belief that this cannot happen there, and they tell us that if
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the guns were just taken away, there's no way that it could happen here,
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or it would be far less likely to happen here. So again,
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I'm just trying to find anywhere in this the words mass shooting. I don't
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see that anywhere in here, because they're just reporting the news. They're reporting
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what happened, not trying to call as alarmists. Let's take up let's get
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this one gun off the streets. They're not doing that anyway. This is
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obviously a concern because they're getting ready to start the Women's World Cup in that
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part of the world. New Zealand And Australia hosting. So this is certainly
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a concern. This is not good timing for this to happen. It's never
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good timing, but it's especially bad timing for it to happen in the midst
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of that while they're getting ready for the Women's World Cup to get underway.
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So there you go, and this actual story, this is really bad.
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But it's it says Auckland, Australia. It's not it's in New Zealand.
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Auckland is definitely in New Zealand anyway, So yes, I will send prayers
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to the folks there that are impacted. I know that's not what we're supposed
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to do. Supposedly, we're you know, stuff your prayers, stuff your
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thoughts and prayers. That's not going to fix anything. It's it's about crime,
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it's about mental illness, it's about a number of things. It's not
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about specifically guns. Law abiding citizens can have them and never shoot anyone.
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All Right, Another quick topic I want to touch on. This is probably
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the bigger topic because there's been a lot of talk this week about the Rhonda
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Santis campaign and how it's struggling. It's not doing great. This is not
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going the way they hoped it would go. At this point now, they
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have had moments where they're out raising the Trump campaign, but it seems,
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according to reports, they're mostly getting donations from very large donations from very wealthy
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people, and they're not really getting the grassroots donations. They're not getting the
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five and ten dollar donations from people, and that's usually an indication of momentum.
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That's a good sign when you have people that are donating smaller amounts five
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dollars a month, ten dollars a month, whatever to your campaign, because
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eventually what happens is the large dollar donors hit their limit. They only have
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so much that they're supposed to give, so much they're allowed to give,
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and once they max that out, that's it. So the concern is that
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the DeSantis camp has been spending too much money and they've had to cut some
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staff, and that they're not really making a lot of headway. And it's
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been a little while, I think since we've had any updated polls. I
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haven't seen a poll in a while. But we're still seeing Trump in the
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fifties, we're seeing DeSantis in the low twenties, and everybody else in the
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single digits. And the ASA Hutchinson's and the mic Pences are really struggling at
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this point. So but we have now heard from another conservative, successful Republican
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governor who didn't try to run against Trump at one point back in twenty sixteen,
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and he says that Rhonda Santis is making some of them same mistakes that
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his campaign made as he tried to run for president, and that is former
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Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. He was a darling. A lot of people thought
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he was going to be the guy. I thought there was a really good
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chance he was going to be the guy. And he says that, yes,
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he sees the same issues Scott Walker. That's a quote. They need
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to focus on going lean and going bold. By lean, I mean even
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though he had a great second quarter in terms of fundraising, actually even outpaced
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the Trump campaign, the fact is they're burning up a fair amount of that
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money and part of their challenge going forward is going to be much of that
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fundraising hall has to come from high end donors, meaning they either have or
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will soon have hit their maximum. So it's a shift. They need to
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be leaning. At the same time, he needs to go bold. I
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know this firsthand just having a great track record as a governor is not enough,
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particularly when you go head to head with someone like Donald Trump. So
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he needs to step out not just to have good performances, but actually kind
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of light of fire with primary and caucus voters and some really bold ideas that
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will not only help him in the polls but ultimately help him with the fundraising
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and the low dollar level, which is what you need these days to sustain
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a campaign. It's a long quote, a lot to digest there, but
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that is exactly what most people are saying, and now here's someone who is
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able to express it very much firsthand. And I think a lot of people
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I'm a little surprised we haven't had any of these major standout moments for De
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Santas. He seems like a guy who would do that. Now. His
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standout moments, I would say, has been his time as governor Florida.
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He has a really solid track record to go on. But so did Scott
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Walker. And I hadn't really thought of this campaign as a parallel to the
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Walker campaign until I saw Scott Walker talking about it and I said, oh
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my gosh, he's in danger of being Scott Walker. And many thought Walker
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was going to be the guy. It seemed like he had a real chance,
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and then it just did not happen, not at all. So here
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we go. Is this going to be another one of those situations? Is
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RHN De Santis gonna be Walker two point zero? There's a real possibility of
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it. We know that De Santis is beloved in Florida. The people there
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love him, A lot of them don't want him to leave as governor.
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There's certainly some people in Florida who'd like to see Trump as president again.
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There's a lot of people around the country obviously, that would like to see
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him back in office, if for no other reason just to throw the old
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middle fingers up and say you can't keep me out of this. But as
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time goes on and they seem to be trying to throw every possible indictment at
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him, every charge at every level they can throw at Trump, it creates
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this dynamic where as we've talked about this week, he's either going to press
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forward and have to run a campaign in the midst of court dates, He's
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going to be pulled off the road to have to go into trials, or
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whoever is going to have to go in and represent him. But he's gonna
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They're gonna do everything they can to make this stuff stick. They're gonna try
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to hrschel Walker him, They're gonna try to dig up everything that's ever happened
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because part of them wants him to be the candidate. For that very reason,
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I think they would much rather get him out of the race completely and
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then they could get Biden out of the race. I talked about that yesterday,
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and I really think that's one of the main objectives. How do we
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get him out so we can get Biden out of the way and we can
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try to go with someone younger because if Trump, if Trump is out of
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the picture, that's going to open a huge hole for De Santis. And
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I don't know that any of the people that are down there in the single
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digits have a real shot. I mean, I would think a lot of
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the Trump voters would immediately go to De Santis. I would think, Again,
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I'm no expert, I'm not a polling guy. I'm not an expert.
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I've been very, very wrong about a number of presidential races. But
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I would think that many of the Trump people solidly Trump people right now if
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they lose Trump as an option for some reason. I do think a lot
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of them would look to De Santis. I don't know who else they would
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look to. They're not looking to Chris Christie. There's still this dream.
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I think people on the left think that it's going to be Chris Christie and
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it's I just don't think that's going to happen, not for Republicans. I
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think maybe some of those independent voters might do it. I just don't know
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that Republicans will do it. So who else do they go to? Where
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else do they go? I know Tim Scott, he's got you know,
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his following. I don't know that Nicki Haley is one that can get it
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across the finish line. I just don't know. I do think it could
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be De Santis, and if Democrats get their way, a Biden versus De
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Santis, if they get managed to get Trump out of the race, a
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Biden versus De Santis race, I think a lot of people would look to
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youth, and they would look to somebody who has gotten the job done,
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somebody who's been efficient in Florida, somebody who has answered the call to a
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lot of common sense things. And I think that Democrats would see that as
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a problem. I don't think they want it to be De Santis and Biden,
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and I do think that would give them an excuse to ask Biden to
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If they asked Biden to move along and he did not, I think you'd
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start seeing some people saying, maybe we need to do some sort of I
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don't know, mental evaluation. You think they would do that to him,
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I do. I think they would use that as a way to try to
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push him out the door. If they knew Trump was out, if they
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knew there was no chance of Donald Trump actually becoming the Republican nominee, I
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think they would find a way. They would find a way to get Biden
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out the door. I do believe that to be the case. So maybe
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the Desantist campaign should have a nice long talk with Scott Walker and maybe they
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could get some solid advice from him on maybe how not to do it,
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and maybe, just maybe there's a chance that we could actually get this into
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a two horse race and give at least two candidates an opportunity to fight it
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Com more West Carol Morning Show right after the break. Yesterday was a hot
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dog day. I want to talk about different dogs today, you know,
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the four legged ones in the house or your yard. I don't know.
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They're probably in the house as hot as it's been. Let's talk about dogs
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and the domesticated kind, the kind that we love our pets. Could you
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imagine your dog trying to function out in the wild. A new poll of
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dog owners found that two out of three believe that if their dog had to
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live in the wild, they would not survive. The average dog owners said
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that they think their little fur baby would only take care of themselves for about
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two days on their own. A third of people said their dog couldn't make
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it a single day. Most say their dogs have only known a life of
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luxury and would not know how to survive at all on their own. Eighty
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percent of those polls said their dogs wouldn't even step outside if it's raining.
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Two thirds said they can't tolerate the cold, so how could they survive in
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the wild? Mine does not like rain. Mine especially does not like thunder,
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any sort of noises outside loud noises. He's we call him a frady
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dog as a take on frady cat. He doesn't like it at all.
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So yes, they would say, Now, this is a disconcerting because we
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were all convinced as kids, all the dog movies that they'd all have some
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big adventure, you know, a couple of dogs. They'd meet up some
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cats, maybe a squirrel, and they'd go on some sort of an adventure
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and then eventually they get back home, might take a month or whatever.
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Least one of the dogs dies. That's why I didn't watch those movies.
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I can't handle it, not at all. One of the first joke because
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I wrote, I said, I don't mind. I can't watch those movies
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where the dog dies, but I can watch the animated ones because when a
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dog dies, then I'm just convinced it's because they ran out of brown.
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And it's one of my first jokes. Are up. Speaking of a dog
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owners, if you don't like to be licked by your dog, apparently you
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should just suck it up and let them lick you all they want, because
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the dog feel safe and secure, so you should probably just let your dog
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just lick away. Let's talk vacations, because we're at that stretch. We're
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running out of time. If you're going to do a vacation before the kids
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go back to school, how long does it take you to relax when you're
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on vacation. For the typical American, it's about four days. A new
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survey says that four days people will then stop thinking about work and learn how
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to relax, so that on a seven day vacation, more than half of
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it is wasted on not being relaxed and thinking about work. If you have
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post vacation blues, you're not alone. A survey found twenty five percent of
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American workers say that the positive effects of vacation time, like feeling less stressed
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and having more energy, disappear as soon as they go back to work.
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According to the American Psychological Association's twenty eighteen Work and Well Being Survey, forty
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percent of those who responded say the benefits of vacation only last just a few
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days. People are getting out of the sun. It's that hot. A
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new survey says that people would rather spend their summers indoors, enjoying air conditioning.
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According to those surveyed, fifty three percent SAT summer is best spin indoors,
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so what makes them prefer being inside? Thirty two percent said they hate
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being sweaty. Thirty two percent also said they don't want to deal with the
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bugs. Thirty one percent said they want to avoid sunburn. Also on par
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with the people who want to avoid sunburn is me who just even though you
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have to, doesn't like sunscreen, not at all. All right, Finally,
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an update on a story that's been going on for a long time.
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Taco Bell has apparently won their case and free Taco Tuesday from Taco Johns,
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and people are now allowed to use it except in the state of New Jersey.
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Taco Johns has three hundred and eighty locations across the country. They held
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the trademark to the term Taco Tuesday since nineteen eighty nine and defended it since,
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tacos, their liberation efforts work. Taco Johns has agreed to give up the
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trademark. Now everyone allowed to use it, except in New Jersey, where
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a local restaurant called Gregory's still refuses to give up its ownership of the term.
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In the state, Oh Gregory hanging there, Gregory ask for some cash.
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Good for Gregory. I mean, I'm glad that Taco John's is giving
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in New Jersey where Gregory's, I just imagine it's a guy named Gregory That'll
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